Tiger Install: Upgrade or Full Install?

Upgrade

Full Install

I personally like to do full installs especially when a new OS comes out. Luckily I have a second HD in my PowerMac and it won't take long at all to back up my data. So what is everyone else going to do?

Haven't decided. Don't really have to much on my iBook, except mp3's which I can just shunt over to my PC for temporary storage.

It might be nice to start with a fresh install.

How do you even do that with one of these things?

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The truth of the matter is OS X doesn't need to be reinstalledonce a year like Windows does to keep things in order. I guess coming from Windows, I just like a fresh clean install. But my fiancee's iBook has been upgraded from 10.1 to 10.2 to 10.3 and we have had no problems.

Clean install. I have shit laying around both my HDs that I really want to get rid of, so I figure I'll copy over the stuff that I know I need, nuke the drive, and then do a clean install. If I missed something I later think I might need, I'll go to my backups...

i am going to just upgrade. i just got a 100GB internal for my iBook G4 and moving 8000 mp3s + videos + pics + installing all my programs over again is a good 3-4 hour job. ill pass on doing that again.

Clean install. I have shit laying around both my HDs that I really want to get rid of, so I figure I'll copy over the stuff that I know I need, nuke the drive, and then do a clean install. If I missed something I later think I might need, I'll go to my backups...

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ditto.

i've done nothing but upgrades since the original 10.0 install, but it's time to clean house on the trusty ol' DP500.

let me get this straight (again, i'm sorry for the n00bness), archive and install archives your old system folder, if for some reason you would want it again. and erase and install just erases the old system folder and makes a new one. both of which save your settings and files.

so its not like windows, where if you do a 'clean install' you have to replace everything.